BLEDINGTON, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of SLAUGHTER, county of GLOUCESTER, 3 miles (S.E. by E.) from Stow on the Wold, containing 840 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at £6. 13. 4., endowed with £600 private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Leonard.